[Tutor] a little debate I hear

[Lloyd Kvam]

Unfortunately, many of the terms used here have acquired spin from
marketing departments.  They are not defined well enough to really
debate them.

With the collapse of Prime, DEC, Data General, Wang (and others?) ten
years ago, I am not sure there is still much point in trying to
distinguish minicomputers as a class of computers.


Cameron Stoner wrote:

> This is sort of a Python related subject in that it has to do with 
> computing.
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> The dabate I here constantly is that mainframes and minicomputers are 
> being replaced with servers.  Then I here it the other way saying that  
> servers can't beat the processing power of a mainframe or minicomputer.
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> My question is as a general poll to everyone in the IT fields; what is 
> being used and what is your take on this subject? Is Python able to be 
> used on say an AS 400 or some other type of major computing device?
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> Cameron Stoner
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